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Tron(e, v. P.p. also thrwnit. [Tron(e n.] tr. To weigh on a weighing-machine or tron (chiefly, one used in a mint for checking the weight of coins).pres. 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. i 152 (see Tronar n. 1).
Trone 1612 Cochran-Patrick Coinage I 286.
Whiche geives the inbringaris occasion to trone the new conoyed money and tak out the heavie 1687 Mackenzie Observ. (1687) 90-1.
The master of the cunȝie-house has the care of coyning, and as checks over him, are for trying the fineness, the essay-master, and for trying the weight are the warden, who trons the money, and the counter-warden, who weighs after him, and is his check 1696 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II 256.
Because it is a visible trouble to trone every five shilling Scotts peice and that it is the use of the Touer of London that small peices be troned by so many in the pound wherin ther cannot be any prejudice that therafter ther be a reckoning made how many of the said five shilling peices doe make a pound … and that they be troned and given out by the pound weight accordinglyp.t. 1558–9 Edinb. Old Acc. I 279 (see Tron(e n. (1)).
Tronitp.p. 1604 Cochran-Patrick Coinage I 283.
And sall caus melt forge and builyie the same in the spaces foirsaid and the samyn tronit [pr. trouit] be the wardanis 1641 Conv. Burghs IV 546.
That all money be ordained to pass peill and tursell and be troned piece be piece 1663 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I 450.
The … merk peices … to be troned, weighted and justed peice by peice

b. fig. To trone (a person) to (on) the treis (ane tre), to hang on a gallows. a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 400.
I sall … wyth tresone trone thé to [B. on] the treis c1530-40 Stewart in Bann. MS 88a/49.
First wilfull wrang in ane widdy mon waif And hid hatreit be hangeit by the heid … Than tressone mon be tronit [Maitl. F. 354/49, thrwnit] to ane tre